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title: "Archive pages"
description: "Learn how to archive, unarchive, and delete pages in Prismic."
category: "use-prismic"
lastUpdated: "2025-11-06T01:07:50.000Z"
---

In Prismic, there are two methods for demoting pages: archiving and deleting.

* **Archiving**: Unpublishes a page from your API and moves it to the **Archive** tab in the Page Builder.
* **Deleting**: Completely removes the page from your repository. Deletion is permanent and irreversible.

Archiving is also known as unpublishing.

# Archive a page

To archive a page, you can either click the **Unpublish** purple button in the top-right corner of the Page Builder, or click the three dots button next to it and select **Archive this page**. The page will be sent to the **Archive** tab and removed from your website.

# Unarchive a page

To unarchive a page, first go to the Archive tab, then click on the page you wish to unarchive. Modify it and click Save. The option to publish it will appear.

# Move a page from archive to draft

It is possible to unarchive a page as a draft without publishing it.

To do so, first find the page in the **Archive** tab. Open the page's history pane by clicking on **View history** in the top-left corner underneath the page's display name. Select the most recent version, and click **Restore**.

The page will be restored as a draft in the **Work** tab.

# Delete a page

You can only delete a page that is already archived.

To delete a page, go to the **Archive** tab. Select the page(s) you wish to delete in the list, and click the **trash can** icon in the top-right corner.

The page(s) will be removed from your repository.

> **Caution**
>
> Deleting a page is irreversible.